Jim, that is another way of doing it and one I had'nt really considered.
At this stage, I thimk I have 'Mastered' as much VCX hacking as I need and for the current project will continue down this road.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards

Gerard



>Gerard,
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>Just an idea, but what about a specialize app that runs each of your converted forms and does RemoveObject and addobject to the form and finally a call to the SaveAs method to save the form under a new name. This way it is VFP that is doing the hacking to the scx and not you.